Thomas Sowell Quotes
Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Rich could play way better than Krupa.
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
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The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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To assess the damage is a dangerous act.
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A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.
